Dallas Wind Symphony
The Dallas Wind Symphony is one of only a few professional wind bands active in the U.S. Though it formed as a reading band, it developed into a sort of American version of the British brass band, though the instrumentation is much broader than that term might imply: beside the usual brass instruments (cornets, flugelhorns, tenor horns, tenor and bass trombones, baritones, euphoniums, tubas, etc.) the DWS includes piccolos, flutes, oboes, English horns, clarinets, various bassoons, trumpets, harp, piano, and percussion. The ensemble plays much American music -- works by Sousa, Bernstein, Morton Gould, Persichetti, Leroy Anderson, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, John Williams, and others. But its repertory is hardly limited: it plays arrangements of J.S. Bach, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mussorgsky, Richard Strauss, and many others, as well as original works by Grainger, Holst, Malcolm Arnold, and more. The roster lists over 50 members and the schedule consists of about eight regular season concerts and one July 4 concert, all performed at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. The DWS also occasionally goes on tour in the U.S. and overseas. The ensemble has made over a dozen recordings, most of them on Reference Recordings, with a few available on Crystal and on its own label, Widget Records.
The Dallas Wind Symphony was founded in 1985 by Kim Campbell and Howard Dunn. Campbell, a trombonist, has served as executive director since the ensemble's founding, and Dunn was the first conductor of the DWS. From 1990, the DWS has played concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center.
Dunn died in 1991, the year the DWS made its first recording. Jerry Junkin was named Dunn's successor in 1993 and still serves as the DWS conductor. From the mid-'90s until his death in 2004, Frederick Fennell, well known from many wind ensemble recordings on Mercury Records and Decca, was the DWS's principal guest conductor. Among the earlier recordings of the DWS was Trittico (1993) on RR and a Fennell-led album containing works by Nelhybel, Dello Joio, Grieg, and Giannini that was nominated for a Grammy. Campbell served as associate producer on that production and for 12 others on RR through 2009.
In 2001 David Kehler was named associate conductor of the DWS and remains in that capacity. The DWS still utilizes prominent guest conductors, like British conductor Timothy Reynish, who led the 2008-2009 season finale, entitled Song & Dance, on April 8, 2009.
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Horns for the Holidays
Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin
Christmas Music - Lançado por Reference Recordings em 2 de out. de 2012
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Strictly Sousa (John Philip Sousa - Frank Byrne - Frederick Fennell)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 5 de jun. de 2001
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Marches I've Missed (Leon Jessel - John Morrissey - Charles Belsterling)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 13 de out. de 1998
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Trittico (Vaclav Nelhybel - Lucien Cailliet - Isaac Albeniz)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 6 de mai. de 1993
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Pomp & Pipes (Sigfrid Karg-Elert - Thomas Brantigan - Alfred Reed)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 4 de fev. de 1994
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Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler
Dallas Wind Symphony, Howard Dunn, Frederick Fennell, Jerry Junkin
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings em 14 de jul. de 2009
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Fennell Favorites! (Johann Sebastian Bach - Donald Hunsberger - Ralph R. Guenther)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 6 de mai. de 1993
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Testament (Ron Nelson - Albert D. van Nostrand - Howard Hanson)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 1 de nov. de 1992
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Beachcomber (Leroy Anderson - Reinhold Gliere - Glenn Osser)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 20 de jan. de 1995
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Holidays and Epiphanies (Ron Nelson)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 22 de out. de 1996
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Arnold for Band (John P. Paynter - Malcolm Arnold - Maurice Johnstone)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 9 de out. de 1995
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Garden of Dreams (David Maslanka)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 14 de nov. de 2006
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Playing With Fire
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings em 29 de out. de 2012
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Hammersmith (Gustav Holst)
Classical - Lançado por Reference Recordings CD em 17 de dez. de 1993
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Redshift
Brian Shaw, Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin
Classical - Lançado por Klavier em 9 de set. de 2014
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